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HomehOAXNo, There Won’t Be 15 Days of Darkness in November. It’s Another Stupid Hoax.

No, There Won’t Be 15 Days of Darkness in November. It’s Another Stupid Hoax.

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The
internet is great, isn’t it?

You
can post anything you want on the internet, and if people like the sound of it,
they spread it. It doesn’t make any difference if it’s true or not. We’re not
born fact checkers and skeptics, are we?

Pretty
soon, before you know it, it’s gone viral. Then it becomes its own sensation,
and people who don’t even believe it start reporting it. Never is this more
true than with hoaxes. The
latest hoax is the “15 Days of Darkness in November” thing that’s going around.
Everyone’s on the bandwagon.

The
15 days hoax is not new. It made an appearance last year, and was thoroughly
debunked. And of course, there wasn’t 15 day of darkness last year, was there?
(Unless NASA covered it up!) It’s
here again this year, and will be debunked again, and will probably be here
next year, too. The
whole thing started at a site that will remain linkless, and caught on from
there. This is what the site reported:

“NASA has confirmed that the Earth will
experience 15 days of total darkness between November 15 and November 29, 2015.
The event, according to NASA, hasn’t occurred in over 1 Million years.”

Of
course, NASA never said any such thing.

Here
is supposedly what will happen to cause this calamity. Try and follow along
with the nonsensical foolishness.

During the conjunction between Venus and
Jupiter on October 26, light from Venus would cause gases in Jupiter to heat
up. The heated gasses will cause a large amount of hydrogen to be released into
space. The gases will reach the Sun and trigger a massive explosion on the
surface of the star, heating it to 9,000 degrees Kelvin. The heat of the
explosion would then cause the Sun to emit a blue color.

The dull blue color will last for 15 days
during which the Earth will be thrown into darkness.

Where
to begin? Let’s start with conjunctions.

Conjunctions
are mostly just visual phenomena. The fact that two things in the sky look
closer together from our point of view on Earth doesn’t mean that they’re that
close together. In fact, even when Jupiter and Venus are in conjunction, they
can still be over 800 million km apart. For perspective, the Sun and the Earth
are about 150 million km apart.

So,
as the hoax goes, at that great distance, light from Venus will cause gases on
Jupiter to heat up. News Flash: the light from the Sun is far more intense than
light from Venus could ever be, and it doesn’t heat up the gases on Jupiter. In
fact, any light from Venus that makes it to Jupiter is just reflected sunlight
anyway.

The
Moon and this dead tree are in conjunction. This will cause the Martian
Pyramids to vibrate harmonically. These vibrations will shake the walls of the
movie studio where the Moon landing was faked, causing it to collapse. Image:
Evan Gough

The
hoax gets more outrageous as it goes along. These supposed heated gases then
escape from Jupiter into space, and head for the Sun. But Jupiter is enormous
and has enormous gravitational pull. How are any gases going to escape
Jupiter’s overpowering gravity? Answer: they can’t and they won’t.

Then,
these gases supposedly strike the Sun, and trigger a massive explosion on the
Sun’s surface, which turn the Sun blue and plunges the Earth into darkness. Not
blueness, which I could understand, but darkness.

This
is absurd, of course. The Sun dominates the planets in a one-way relationship,
and nothing the planets ever do could change that. No escaped gases from
Jupiter would ever strike the Sun.

Jupiter
is puny and insignificant compared to the Sun. And it’s also hundreds of
millions of kilometers away. How is a puny puff of hydrogen from Jupiter
supposed to darken the Sun? Image: NASA/SDO

Nothing
Jupiter does can affect the Sun. Jupiter is, on average, 778 million km from
the Sun. Jupiter could change places with Venus, and the Sun would keep shining
normally. Jupiter could explode completely and the Sun would go on shining
normally. Jupiter could put on a big red nose and some clown shoes, and the Sun
would remain unaffected.

The
Sun is a giant atom-crushing machine 1000 times more massive than Jupiter. The
massive wall of energy and solar wind that comes from the Sun slams into
Jupiter, and completely overwhelms anything Jupiter can do to the Sun. It’s
just the way it is. It’s just the way it will always be.

Like
the faked Moon landing hoax, and the Nibiru/Planet X hoax, this 15 days of
darkness meme just keeps coming around. There may be no end to it.

It’s
annoying, for sure, but maybe there’s a silver lining. Maybe some people
reading about this supposed calamity will enter the word “conjunction” into a
search engine, and begin their own personal journey of learning how the
universe works.